1.5 billion in Asia-Pacific need aid to escape poverty
World’s 2.6 billion in line for toilets
Sri Lankans suffering from food insecurity
Indian NGO helps rehabilitate border orphans
Despite the recent rapid strides on the economic front,
at an average of 6 percent per year, around 1.5 billion
people in Asia-Pacific live on less than two dollars a day.
This new report by the Asian Development Bank is a glaring
reflection of poverty that also impacts the goals on education,
health and sanitation.
Read more…
In a shocking tale of survival, hunger forces a village in
eastern India to sells parts of a rocky mountain.
Read more…
March 22 is World Water Day
MDG 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
Target 10: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation
The World Water Day reinforces the message that safe-water goals cannot be
achieved without tackling sanitation. The new WASH (water supply, sanitation and hygiene)
campaign is urging the world to hurry up and address the critical issue of lack of toilets.
Making safe drinking water accessible to children
and families can help prevent diarrhoeal diseases,
one of the leading causes of death among children under five.
Read more…
After years of model development, Sri Lanka is now a
low-income food deficit country with a relatively high
global hunger index in South Asia, according to the
World Food Programme. Food insecurity due to unaffordable
prices is leading to low nutrition levels and wasting. It’s
time to notice the public food and health crisis.
Read more…
The Borderless World Foundation provides shelter,
rehabilitation and support to young girls affected by violence
in the Indian border areas of Jammu and Kashmir. The baseras
have become new homes to those orphaned and abandoned by helping
them recover psychologically and socially.
Read more…
RTI needs more teeth.
Transparency Review
,
the January issue of Journal of Transparency
Studies by the Centre for Media Studies examines
the execution of Right to Information Act in India
and analyses ways to make it more effective.
Amnesty International India’s report
Safe Schools: Every Girl's Right
has key
demands to make schools safe for girls by
prohibiting all forms of violence and enforcing early intervention
mechanisms, codes of conduct and appropriate laws.
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